Report from John Kimball for Month of September 1868, District of Columbia
- Title
- Report from John Kimball for Month of September 1868, District of Columbia
- Date
- 10-01-1868
- Creator
- Rev. John Kimball
- Recipient
-
Bvt. Maj. D. G. Swaim
- Description
- Narrative report about education under the District of Columbia. States that 5 large meetings were held in September, including one at Churchville, which had a very quiet and attentive audience. Kimball states that many of the colored people in that area have always been free and some own farms. They have built a schoolhouse with little assistance and organized temperance societies.
- School
- Churchville aka Asbury
- Source
- Smithsonian, National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Courtesy of the U. S. National Archives and Records Administration, FamilySearch International, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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